Zero Otto Nove

15 W. 21st St, NY, NY 10010

Rating: 3 - Feeling Good
Visit #: 1
In brief: This place makes you feel like you are on vacation in Europe, in the restaurant of the hotel. Our killer combo is a pizza and tuna salad.

We have discovered the trick to making a space feel foreign - posters. Throughout Zero Otto Nove are promotional posters in Italian, promoting concerts and festivals and I have no idea what any of them are saying. But I did feel like we were on vacation, taking a civilized lunch in a restaurant near a train station maybe. The darkly handsome staff might have added to that sensation. We split a delicious Insalata di Tonno (tuna salad) and a Napoletana pizza, a light lunch but also a wallet friendly one. I could have eaten the salty, chewy pizza crust all day long. I think we will be traveling back to Italy again.